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The team helps determine what kind of care the patient needs and where that can best be provided, whether it's in the ICU, in an intermediate unit, on a regular floor or in a palliative-care program.
Critical (Re)thinking Melinda Beck 2011
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With that goal in mind, she sought advice and treatment from palliative-care specialists at Washington Home and Community Hospices.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: End-of-Life Counseling Allowed a Focus on Living 2009
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With that goal in mind, she sought advice and treatment from palliative-care specialists at Washington Home and Community Hospices.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: End-of-Life Counseling Allowed a Focus on Living 2009
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I asked if, in that case, we can get a palliative-care consult, and the doctor said that he didn't know, but that as long as palliative care honored the medication regime, he thought it would be okay.
Last Shot Susan Palwick 2008
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The town would get a twenty-million-dollar state-of-the-art hospice and palliative-care facility owned and operated by the Vanderloos Foundation.
Some Assembly Required Lynn Kiele Bonasia 2008
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At Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J., ethics and palliative-care coordinator Jeanne Kerwin and her team are called on to do almost 300 consultations a year.
Life and Death: 2008
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Though the majority of palliative-care patients are terminally ill, that is not one of the criteria for inclusion in a program.
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Between 2000 and 2004, the number of hospital-based palliative-care programs in the country jumped from 632 to 1,102, which is 27 percent of all hospitals.
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Somebody is going to have to invent a new word to describe the kinds of cases that Dr. Diane Meier deals with as head of the palliative-care program at New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center -- "complicated" just doesn't get the job done.
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Those problems included depression, so Cruz's palliative-care team arranged for him to see a therapist.
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